[uml-user] Finally UML running

[<jur...@ph...>]

After a couple of months of inactivity due to giving
courses and working on my house (baby expected),
I finally got an afternoon free last Sunday.

What has changed for me in the meantime, instead
of compiling my kernel on my portable 233 MHz, I
have now an Athlon powered system w/ 2 Gb RAM.

My goal is still to create a very small filesystem from
scratch, using uClibc instead of glibc.

Last time my attempts failed because I could not get
a login on a xterm. Now I have found out why, and it
seems to be something that is not found in the
documentation.

In the kernel configuration, there are options regarding
all kinds of virtual channels, and these options are by
default set to OFF. I noticed this only Sunday, after
configuring and building, I finally could start up the
kernel using a Debian root image, which I have in the
meantime already upgraded from stable to testing.

Next step is testing this using a root file system based
upon uClibc and busybox and then gradually adding
network support for creating really small servers.

Regards,

Jurgen